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God’s Providence: What did Early American Religious Thinkers Believe about the Role of God in Human Affairs?
The eighteenth century in America was a time of awakening from the slumber of the past. Light was shed on the darkness of superstition, irrationality, autocracy, aristocratic privilege, and dogma. The individual, weighed down by the chains of time, institutions, … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Christianity, God's Providence
Tagged bible, Christianity, Early American Christians, god, history, Protestants, Providence, Religion, theology
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The Mirror of the Past is found in Books
The mirror of the past is the only way to peer at the image of what is human. The reflection is darkened by time and sin. Specters of the dead, haunting the dusty stacks of long-ago thoughts, turn up repeatedly, … Continue reading
Posted in books, Christianity, Review of books written by Russell Lawson
Tagged bible, books, history, philosophy, Plutarch
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Books by Russell M. Lawson
The Memories of Katie Perkins: The Story of the Perkins and Related Families of New England This story of Katie Perkins and her family and friends is centered around hundreds of photographs portraying Victorian and Edwardian life in New England … Continue reading
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Tagged author, blog, books, poetry, reviews, writing
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Review of The Sea Mark: Captain John Smith’s Voyage to New England
The Nautilus: A Maritime Journal of Literature, History, and Culture, (The Nautilus VII (Spring 2016): 115-118: nautilus.maritime.edu/) published a review of my book: The Sea Mark: Captain John Smith’s Voyage to New England (University of New England Press, 2015): the review, reproduced by permission, follows: … Continue reading
FAQs of Christianity
(Answers are Found in the Past) FAQ 1: What is a Christian? This initial question yields the many questions that follow because Christianity is an old religion, entering into its third millennium, based on an even older religion, that of … Continue reading
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Tagged bible, Christianity, church, god, Gospels, Jesus, New Testament, Old Testament
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Marian Opala’s Fight for Freedom
September 1, 1939, Marian Piotr Opala was an eighteen-year-old student living with his parents in Lodz, Poland, when he heard the news that the Germans had invaded his homeland and were headed toward Lodz from the west. Marian, a law … Continue reading
God, the Creator of Self
According to Psalm 139 of the Old Testament, “O Lord, Thou hast proved me, and known me.” This psalm is a wonderful source of essential knowingness, a source of truthfulness, a source in which a person knows God and knows … Continue reading
Why Marxism doesn’t Work
Karl Marx was a German intellectual, philosopher, journalist, and atheist Jew who wrote anti-government publications and radical pamphlets and dense analyses of economic, political, and social philosophy. After being exiled from France, he lived in Britain. His collaborator in his … Continue reading
Katherine (Katie) Florence Perkins (1875-1937) of Pawtucket, Rhode Island: A Single Woman who worked as a bookkeeper, brush-maker, and house-cleaner
Katie Perkins was born in 1875 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, a small factory city of traditional New Englanders and immigrants from Europe. Her parents were George Henry Perkins of Rhode Island and Margaret Rennie Crawford, an immigrant from Glasgow, Scotland. … Continue reading
Posted in Biography
Tagged family-history, genealogy, History of New Engand, women's history
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Diary of Marie Antoinette McCrillis, widow with two young children, living in San Rafael, California, and Moving to Palmyra, Maine in 1876
Marie Antoinette McCrillis was a 24 year old widow with two children from her marriage to James Sullivan Collamore: Eliza, born in 1871, and Edith, born in 1873. James was a carpenter, born in 1838. Marie, nicknamed Nettie, was born … Continue reading
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Tagged Diaries, History of California, History of Maine, women's history
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